VanX
Offline, encrypted clipboard
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Search your clipboard by meaning, not just keywords. Instant history, notes, and real files on disk in one keyboard-driven workspace — fully offline, nothing collected.
Copy anything. Find it again by what it means.
VanX keeps your clipboard history and makes it findable the way you actually remember it. Copy "the invoice is overdue" today, type "unpaid bill" next week, and it comes right back — semantic search runs entirely on your Mac, even with no network connection. When you know the exact words, fast full-text search is there too.
INSTANT HISTORY
• Text, links, images, and files are captured automatically as you copy
• Summon your history with a global hotkey and keep your hands on the keyboard
• Double-click to copy anything back, or turn on Direct Paste (opt-in and off by default; uses the macOS Accessibility permission) to paste straight into the active app
• Text inside screenshots becomes searchable through on-device text extraction
• Pause capture anytime from the menu bar, or use Private Mode to stop saving until you quit the app
ONE WORKSPACE, FIVE SURFACES
• Inbox — your clipboard history, organized and searchable
• Notebooks — collect related clips into lasting collections
• Notes — write alongside your clips: headings, to-do lists, code blocks
• Lab — compare clips side by side and see how your content connects
• Folio — keeps your clipboard's files as real files on disk, in drawers inside a folder you pick
Inbox, Notebooks, and Notes are ready at first launch; Lab and Folio switch on with the free Advanced mode.
PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE
• App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected
• No account, no sign-up, no telemetry, and no VanX server — there is nothing to send data to
• Every type of outbound connection is off by default — a fresh install never sends your data anywhere
• The built-in Privacy Report shows each connection type and its on/off state, live
• Your library is encrypted at rest — SQLCipher (AES-256) for the database, AES-256-GCM for protected fields and the semantic index — with no plaintext fallback; keys are generated on your Mac and kept in the Keychain
• App Lock adds a password with a recovery key for the moments your Mac is shared
AT HOME ON YOUR MAC
• Hotkey, type, hit return — no context switching
• Light and dark themes, from calm system-native looks to expressive palettes
• Lives in your menu bar, ready whenever you copy
FAIR PRICING
VanX is a one-time purchase — no subscription. The free trial covers 30 days of actual use (only days you use it count), and you can extend it once by 7 days, right from the app. If the trial ends before you decide, nothing is deleted: your library stays readable, searchable, and exportable; capture and editing resume when you purchase.
FOR THE TECHNICALLY CURIOUS
Search by meaning runs on a bundled MiniLM sentence-embedding model over an encrypted local vector index; exact search uses SQLite FTS5. Nothing is downloaded, and there is no remote inference anywhere in the app.
Your clipboard is a record of what you work on and care about. VanX treats it that way.
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The developer, Kannan Karuppiah Kumar, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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For more information, visit the developer’s accessibility website .
Information
- Seller
- Kannan Karuppiah Kumar
- Size
- 300.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- VanX Full Unlock $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kannan Karuppiah Kumar
